What made the character of Jeremy Wendell so unique was that he was all business. This worked well to point out that when J.R. went after a person, he went after their personal lives.
And this won't work with Wendell. Bribe Jeremy? He already has plenty of money.
Set him up with a prostitute and blackmail him? Jeremy isn't married anyway, so who would care?
Threaten to hurt him in business? Wendell doesn't own a business- he works for West Star.
So J.R.'s usual schemes won't work against Jeremy Wendell. It made Wendell and interesting adversary for J.R.
That's a great observation. It took a whole different strategy to battle Wendell than it did JR's other adversaries and competitors.
There is one thing about Jeremy which JR could and did exploit. Jeremy prided himself on never making mistakes. So, when JR sold Wendell Cliff's pipeline, but without ownership if the land for the pipeline to cross, it was worthless to Wendell. JR even said: I know you're a proud and pompous man...would you like to keep your reputation intact?
Jeremy simply asked how much it would cost and JR replied that it wasn't money he was after. JR ended up asking for and getting all the Ewing property Wendell had bought from the government. What a great storyline!
